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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 Apr;15(4):352.

Table 2.

Sensitivity and specificity of 18F-FDG PET for the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis

Study Year Number of patients Cohort Diagnosis Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%)
Yamagishi 2003 17 Cardiac sarcoid histologic 100 n/a
Okumura 2004 22 Sarcoid histologic 100 91
Ishimaru 2005 32 Sarcoid clinical 100 82
Ohira 2008 21 Suspected cardiac sarcoid ECG and Holter diagnosis 88 39
Langah 2009 65 Suspected cardiac sarcoid suspected sarcoid 85 90
Weighted Mean 168 89.9 81.4
Mean 168 91 75.5

All studies with 18 F-FDG PET against gold standard of Japanese Ministry Guidelines. (Adapted with permission from: Ohira H, Tsujino I, Yoshinaga K. (1) F-Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography in cardiac sarcoidosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011;38:1773–83 [48••]